| 1. | The lack of emotional fervor and enthusiasm prevents this type from impressing others. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 2. | I still held on to the leg of the table, but clutched it now with the fervor of gratitude. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | In a word, an almost poetical fervor prevailed. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 4. | I can't forget how he prayed with almost equal fervor for a cat, and then tried to tear my throat out with his teeth. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 5. | Never did he work with such fervor and success as when things went ill with him, and especially when he quarreled with his wife. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | Then she continued her singing with inexpressible fervor and feeling. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 7. | Once more he cudgelled the sides of the inflexible Gunpowder, and, shutting his eyes, broke forth with involuntary fervor into a psalm tune. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |
| 8. | The dignity of the wife checked the fervor of the lover and the mother. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | "Idiotic woman" he said to himself, sat down to the table, and, opening a portfolio, he set to work at once with peculiar fervor at a sketch he had begun. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |